The Tyranny of Merit What's Become of the Common Good?

So first is Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandel, a justice philosopher at Harvard.

Michael Sandel in his 2020 book called The Tyranny of Merit is going to question whether that's actually a good way to be giving recognition in a society.

The person that originally coined the term meritocracy was a guy named Michael Young back in the year 1958. He wrote a book called The Rise of the Meritocracy.

It's a fiction novel that's about a dystopian future where society organizes things around a meritocracy.

It tells successful people that you're the reason for all your success and you don't have to consider all the factors outside of your control that made your situation a pretty fortunate one.

We start to view the entire concept of education in our societies as just a way for people to acquire credentials so they can get paid in the world.

As Sandel talks about in his more recent book, the tyranny of merit, are the consequences of that, that we got a bunch more successful people in the world rolling around in Bugatti's or do we just have a society that ends up more divided one where, as he says, we flatter the successful in the world and humiliate the unsuccessful.

There is another book on this topic of merit and meritocracy. This one was written by one of the professors I took a course with at Harvard named Michael Sandel. It was called Justice.

And so this is, I think, his latest book came out in 2020, The Tyranny of Merit. What's become of the common good?

Let me just say that neither of these titles make it seem at all like they have a bias. I'm just kidding. Meritocracy, trap. The tyranny of merit. You don't have to guess. Right. I mean, it's interesting to have one of the most eminent professors at one of the most eminent universities in the world talk about the tyranny of merit, because oftentimes merit has been the hero.

And he talks about how progressives and Democrats in particular valorize college.

Another book along those lines that I think also helps understand where we are in the country in a justice framework to figure out why it is that there's so much inequality in the country and what inequality means and what we should be striving for in a just society. Because it's not necessarily what people think. And the book that I really enjoyed reading and made me think, I think about it almost every day, is the book by Michael J. Sandel, my former Harvard professor, called The Tyranny of Merit,

And the book that I really enjoyed reading, it made me think, I think about it almost every day, is the book by Michael J. Sandel, my former Harvard professor, called The Tyranny of Merit,

People who have technocratic expertise, but who lack human judgment and experience, practical wisdom, sense of history, they've gotten us, if you just look back at the last half century, they've gotten us into some pretty dangerous political circumstance.

Sandel's new book, The Tyranny of Merit, What's Become of the Common Good?, is an intense indictment of America's relationship with achievement.

I think it's a must read for everyone.

One of the most galling features of meritocratic hubris is its credentialism.

The moral of Henry Aaron's story is not that we should love meritocracy but that we should despise a system of racial injustice that can only be escaped by hitting home runs.